Woman cracks open giant egg to discover nature is craaaaazy

By Sam Downing3 years ago

It's fair to guess a giant egg will contain a giant egg yolk. This is a perfectly rational assumption, and it's the one made by Englishwoman Emma Postlethwaite when one of her hens laid an egg weighing more than 160g — double the size of a large supermarket egg.

But her jumbo egg did not contain the usual white'n'yolk combo. It contained... another egg.

WTF?!?!?!

This phenomenon is completely effing mind-blowing rare but not unheard of: it's known as a "counter-peristalsis contraction" and basically happens when a hen makes two eggs inside her lady parts at the same time, resulting in one egg forming around the other.

And if you're wondering: no, the egg-in-an-egg did not hold another egg. It held exactly what you'd expect. Phew.